Is your job related to music?

[imperfection]

As much as we all love music, who actually works in that field (e.g. Music teacher, professional performer, composer/arranger, DJ, etc)?

[sul G]

Me

[Maciek]

I don't.

Why not add a poll question into your original post? 0:)

[hornteacher]

My degree is in Music Education.  I teach middle school band, conduct the local youth orchestra, play horn in the local symphony, judge music festivals, conduct honor band clinics, compose and arrange music for concert band, marching band, and orchestra, and do volunteer work with the local drum and bugle corps, and the local Classical Radio Station.

No wonder I'm tired.

[DavidRoss]

No.  I once subbed for a middle school band teacher who was out sick for a week.  Hornteacher has my respect.

[hornteacher]

No.  I once subbed for a middle school band teacher who was out sick for a week.  Hornteacher has my respect.

Greatfully appreciated.   

[Cato]

As a foreign language and History teacher, the direct answer is no, but I have developed curricula using classical music as a supplement.

In Latin I recently used the Dies Irae text and played the original Gregorian chant along with the opening of Verdi's version!

In a few weeks I will use excerpts from the Latin text which inspired Elliot Carter's Symphonia Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei, and then will play at least the opening of the work for them.

In German I used all kinds of texts from works by Mahler (e.g. Das Klagende Lied,) Schoenberg (e.g. Gurrelieder, Erwartung), and Elektra by Richard Strauss.  In my A.P. European History course I included music history as an ancillary project, showing e.g. the connections among Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Stravinsky's Le Sacre and the rumblings before the start of World War I.

Unfortunately, because of declining enrollment, I had to switch to the school where I now teach only Latin.

[Novi]

As a foreign language and History teacher, the direct answer is no, but I have developed curricula using classical music as a supplement.

In Latin I recently used the Dies Irae text and played the original Gregorian chant along with the opening of Verdi's version!

In a few weeks I will use excerpts from the Latin text which inspired Elliot Carter's Symphonia Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei, and then will play at least the opening of the work for them.

Wow, these sound like great classes.

All I remember from my brief foray into the classics many many years ago are the Ecce Romani textbooks (anybody else remember these?) - Ecce! In pictura est puella nomine Cornelia ...

[imperfection]

I forgot to add that I'm a high school student that is going to become a music major this coming fall.

[toledobass]

Is my job related to music? 

hmmmm...sometimes

Allan

[Cato]

Wow, these sound like great classes.

All I remember from my brief foray into the classics many many years ago are the Ecce Romani textbooks (anybody else remember these?) - Ecce! In pictura est puella nomine Cornelia ...

I got rid of that book when I took over this program, along with another one even worse known as "the Jenney," which regales students with things like "The farmers walk to the harbor and see the ships."  Another dumb dumb text is "Latin for Americans" which should be retitled "Latin for Students Who Really Do Not Want To Learn Latin But Want The Glory Of It On Their Transcripts."

The current text is the Cambridge series, which has a running soap-opera-ish story with humor and cliffhangers, along with a good deal of archeology. 

No musical connections, of course: I supply that!   0:)